Tuesday’s WMUR Granite State Poll on the presidential race can be taken two different ways.

On the one hand, you could ask what is wrong with President Obama in New Hampshire. The poll shows Obama up 49 percent to Romney’s 45 percent with a margin of error of +/- 4.5 percent. When you look at numbers inside the poll they aren’t very good for Obama. Some 57 percent of the state believes the country is on the wrong track. For the first time since October, more people disapprove of his job than approve. His personal favorability has dropped six points in the last three months to under 50 percent. Now, add to all that that Mitt Romney’s favorability numbers are improving.

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On the other hand, you could ask what is wrong with Mitt Romney in New Hampshire. After all, with all of those number listed above why isn’t Romney winning in this state?

One item that is becoming increasingly clear is President Obama’s strategy of attacking Mitt Romney full time is probably his only play.

Basically everyone in the state has made up their minds about President Obama, which is typical for an incumbent president. Only seven percent say they “don’t know” if they like or don’t like Obama. Yet, double that number — 14 percent — say they have not made up their mind about Mitt Romney.

The only way Obama might be able to tack up a few points to get over 50 percent is by trashing Romney. In New Hampshire though, that might be a tough thing to do. Granite Staters know Romney better than they know Obama. They followed his tenure as Massachusetts governor, he ran for president twice here, and he regularly visits his vacation home in Wolfeboro.

These attacks might be more effective in other swing states than they will be here in New Hampshire, but with independents evenly split between the two, these attacks don’t need to be dramatically effective in order to get the job done.